| TEXT: Gaultheria pumila var. leucocarpa (ERICACEAE)
This variety of the species is confined as I understand it to Southern
Chile. This specimen was photographed 9/1/99 in the moist alpine garden
bed at Phil Parsons' nursery at Elizabeth Town. Phil gives this bed extra
water through the summer to grow such things as Gunnera cordifolia. In
cultivation it grows up to 1.5 metres, produces suckers but not prolifically.
The berries when produced are a good white. Phil characterises it as easy.
Propagation is from cuttings anytime after late summer, these may be expected
to root 100% in a conventional media, we use a media based on coconut fibre
rather than peat, the cuttings are of a significantly better quality than
those struck in peat based media. Zone 7 Submitted by: John Dudley |
